From: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>
To: One Thousand Gnomes <gnomes@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>,
Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>,
David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>,
Xen-devel <xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org>,
"open list:XEN NETWORK BACKEND DRIVER" <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
open list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
"Boris Ostrovsky" <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 1/3] xen-netback: fix license ident used in MODULE_LICENSE
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 2016 14:54:38 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160123145438.GB9393@citrix.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160122202521.76b98494@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
On Fri, Jan 22, 2016 at 08:25:21PM +0000, One Thousand Gnomes wrote:
> > The fact what include/linux/license.h:license_is_gpl_compatible includes
> > "Dual MIT/GPL" as an option seems to suggest that it is enough of a thing
> > to be validly used as the contents of a MODULE_LICENSE() thing.
>
> Yes. The MIT licence most definitely exists, and people know what it
> means.
>
> Also nobody should be changing the licence on anything unless they have
> the written permission of all rights holders on record, so it's best to
> leave it be 8)
>
I knew from the beginning anything related to license will be fun. :-)
In this particular case, I don't think I need to get confirmation from
all rights holder because they've agreed to the licenses listed in
the comment. I'm merely fixing a bug in code.
I understand people have different opinion on how this should be
interpreted. And I'm not a lawyer. Let's just leave it be now and divert
our energy to more useful things in life.
Wei.
> Alan
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2016-01-22 12:34 ` [PATCH 1/3] xen-netback: fix license ident used in MODULE_LICENSE Wei Liu
2016-01-22 13:14 ` [Xen-devel] " David Vrabel
2016-01-22 13:49 ` Wei Liu
2016-01-22 14:15 ` Ian Campbell
2016-01-22 14:34 ` David Vrabel
2016-01-22 20:25 ` One Thousand Gnomes
2016-01-22 21:00 ` David Miller
2016-01-23 14:54 ` Wei Liu [this message]
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